Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

[Andrew Kuchling]

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
> This IL stuff is not a big deal intellectually so why doesn't M$ just
> release the language definition and sources and let the big & small guys
> play?

It would certainly be interesting to see a spec for MSIL and CLR, in
order to gauge the complexity of writing an independent
implementation.  It might provide a decent chance of unifying the
hopelessly fragmented state of scripting languages on Unix.

--amk